Word: collared
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...demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging young Americans off the streets of the nation's capital, and of blue-collar workers making common cause with turtle-hugging environmentalists has reinforced the idea, in the public mind, that there are many Americans unconvinced about the virtues of globalization. "Like the earlier Seattle protests over trade, the Washington protests have certainly put issues of the world economy...
...collar. Say you own 100 shares of Intel, trading last week at $120. You can buy a January 2001 put option at $110 for $13.50 a share and sell a January 2001 call option at $140 for the same price. Your net cost is zero. Together those options mean that you can sell for $110 no matter how low Intel goes but that you'll never get a dime more than $140. Not a bad insurance policy if you suspect trouble...
...somehow managed to avoid the oblivion of the fringe. For starters, his philosophy of "economic patriotism" is based on ideas that are popular across the political spectrum. On issues such as free-trade and globalization, Harvard students should keep in mind that in addition to millions of blue-collar workers, Buchanan can claim the sympathies of Ralph Nader, and even to some extent, our own Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel...
...college is "a really strange hybrid of blue collar and intellectual," Gravois says...
...38th day, the union officials said, "Let there be flight!" One of the longest and largest white-collar strikes in American history came to an end Friday when members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reached a tentative agreement with aerospace giant Boeing over wages and benefits. The settlement, described by analysts as "generous" to the union, highlights both increasing competition for Boeing from the European aircraft consortium, Airbus, and a general corporate love affair with stock prices that appears to have pushed the issue of corporate costs into the background...